"Mars is there, waiting to be reached."
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is primarily carbon dioxide. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from −153 to 20 °C, and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in
"When President Bush called in 1989 for a manned mission to Mars on the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo landing, he got the estimated bill from NASA: 450 billion dollars. The sticker shock killed Bush’s initiatives in Congress. The price was high because everyone in NASA and their parasite companies tacked every conceivable extra onto the mission."
Mars"[Y]ou drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and it lands on the ground And out comes the man from Mars And you try to run but hes got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then youre in the man from Mars You go out at night eating cars..."
Mars"[In 2057] we should be celebrating 20 years of man on Mars."
Mars"Mars is too cold, Venus is too hot, Earth is just right."
Mars"I want to fly away. (Yeah Yeah Yeah) Lets go to see the starsthe Milky Way, and even Marswhere it could be just ours."
Mars"She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars"
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